I don't have a strong personal preference, but I agree with Joe's points about IRC. +1 for IRC meetings. (And don't believe what you read on twitter - Betty White and IRC are both still alive and kicking.) Rikki Endsley | Community Evangelist Open Source and Standards (OSAS), Red Hat http://community.redhat.com/ Twitter: @redhatopen | @rikkiends ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joe Brockmeier" <jzb@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2014 8:52:30 AM > Subject: Re: Proposal -- fortnightly magazine meeting > > On 09/13/2014 07:23 AM, Timothy Butterworth wrote: > > Is it possible to switch meetings to Google Hangouts? IRC is > > essentially dead technology. > > "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." ~ IRC > > IRC is a good "low barrier to entry" technology: It operates reasonably > well over slow connections, you can easily get into IRC with any number > of clients across all OSes, and doesn't require any proprietary > software. Some or all of those criteria may not be important to you > personally, but they are important to others. > > Also, we use meeting logging software that helps keep track of > minutes/action items, etc. That doesn't work with Google Hangouts. > Skimming the log of an IRC meeting is much easier than trying to skim > through a recording of a hangout (assuming you're talking about using > the audio/video and not just a group chatroom - but meetbot still > doesn't work with Hangouts AFAIK). > > Other folks may feel differently, but -1 here. > > Best, > > jzb > -- > Joe Brockmeier | Principal Cloud & Storage Analyst > jzb@xxxxxxxxxx | http://community.redhat.com/ > Twitter: @jzb | http://dissociatedpress.net/ > > > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
